Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department issued a call last week for volunteers to sail for Tientsin with the 15th U. S. Infantry. Said the call: "Applicants . . . will face the most severe enlistment requirements the Army has ever set up. . . . Ex-service men must have been discharged with excellent character to be eligible. Volunteers without prior service must be at least 25 instead of the usual 18 years and of unusually fine character and physique...
...Some Harvard men may be going with me on my next expedition, but since I have at present about 3000 applications for service. I could not very well make a definite statement. In experiences such as we shall face in the polar regions, the best or the worst will come to the surface in any man, and we want to be pretty sure of these that go with...
...debating schedule this year is more inclusive than ever before. For the first time the University team will face the University of Porto Rico and the University of the Philippines. There will also be a debate with Northwestern, while several other debates are pending. The climax of the season will come with the Triangular Meet, when Yale debates at Cambridge and Harvard meets Princeton at Princeton...
...ridicule and rhythm: A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Hit the Deck, Manhattan Mary, Show Boat, Good News...
...tremendous sky. Soldiers have been brave before and since; Washington's men heard the wind capering like a white wolf in the snowy sky and they held out their hands to fires that were colder than the stars. Food was scarce at Valley Forge. The general, his bleak face pinched by the agony of that winter's cold, could promise no comfort. The spring came slowly and the army stayed through a warm June, when trout jumped at twilight in Schuylkill River...